May 28, 2025: Le Nunavoix Features Research by Katrin Schmid
A recent article written by journalist Karine Lavoie for Le Nunavoix, a French-language community newspaper published in Nunavut, reports on the recent visit of InfraNorth researcher Katrin Schmid to Nunavut, where she presented the findings of her research on transportation infrastructure and food sovereignty in Nunavut.
Schmid’s report “Country Food Cargo: Transport Infrastructure and Food Sovereignty in Nunavut” explores how five communities in the Qikiqtani region of Nunavut envision their future and how these ideas connect to the transportation infrastructure being developed today. Specifically, she focuses on the link between transportation and country food—traditional foods like caribou, fish, and seal—and how this relationship shapes the future of Nunavut.
Based on 170 interviews with community members, Schmid emphasizes the importance of centering local voices and highlights where decision-makers can better prioritize local needs and support for hunters, harvesters, and those who rely on country food.
Read the full article here.
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Nov 2025: Special Issue of “Anthropologica” Co-edited by Giuseppe Amatulli and Philipp Budka
A new special issue of Anthropologica (Vol. 67, No. 1, 2025), the journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society, has just been published. Titled “Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience,” the issue was co-edited by Giuseppe Amatulli (Carleton University) and InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka and presents anthropological perspectives on water, energy and transport infrastructures […]
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Nov 2025: Article by Julia Olsen, Alexandra Meyer, et al. in The Polar Journal
The Polar Journal, which publishes policy-relevant research on polar affairs from across the social sciences and humanities, has recently released the article ‘Building transdisciplinary bridges and learning from the Svalbard context’ by Julia Olsen, Alexandra Meyer, and Lisbeth Iversen, Ulrich Schildberg, Ragnhild Holmen Bjørnsen, Grete K. Hovelsrud, James Badu, Dina Brode-Roger, Adriana Craciun, Hanne H. […]
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Nov 5, 2025: Presentation by Philipp Budka at the University of Vienna
On November 5, 2025, at 5:00 pm CET, InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka will deliver a lecture titled “Sovereignty by Design: Community Infrastructures and Relational Futures in Remote Canada,” as part of the Wednesday Seminars, the lecture series of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. Budka’s talk examines infrastructural sovereignty—the […]
